Exorcise the Demons [LP]

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Source Direct: Phil Aslett, Jim Baker. The full-length format has proven problematic for drum n' bass producers. It's particularly rough for the so-called "tech steppers" accustomed to purveying their breakbeat nightmares on wax and dubplates. Photek protegees Phil Aslett and Jim Baker had been prowling the darker-than-dark fringes of drum n' bass for years before letting loose 1998's ferocious EXORCISE THE DEMONS. Like their meticulous mentor, Source Direct's break-charmers acquit themselves admirably. Their first album is a definitive slab of darkcore intensity. Variety is the spice that makes or breaks drum n' bass albums. Get too eclectic and you have a mess; enter too rigid a mind-state and you produce a turgid bore--perfect for the floor but ill-suited to the stereo. Source Direct is fairly single-minded in the pursuit of thick, sinister atmosphere, snake-style bass, and melodic dark-matter. The relentlessly slicing and stabbing stainless-steel breakbeats would be mentally debilitating if not for the varied--and somewhat amusing--textures deftly woven into such tension-breakers as "Love & Hate" and "Dubstar." Source Direct's production is sterling throughout. Through sheer force of talent and vision, DEMONS craftily outsmarts the album-jinx that continues to bedevil even the duo's most club-savvy peers.
録音 : ステレオ (Studio)